SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 69 36 64
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.54% 6.35% 6.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.12% 20.22% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 23 41
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £365 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £573
90th Percentile £575 £674 £663
South West median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.26 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £28.99 £56.25
90th Percentile - £50.30 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 £33.32
% change year-on-year +175.32% -18.59% -43.29%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 312 178 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 29.57% 31.39% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 76 146
10th Percentile £350 £346 £300
25th Percentile £413 £384 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -12.20%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £671 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 47 51
10th Percentile £60.13 £59.75 £52.50
25th Percentile £61.81 £61.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
1 5 (7.25%) Skype for Business
2 4 (5.80%) Apache
2 4 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.09%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) Power Platform
3 14 (20.29%) AWS
3 14 (20.29%) GCP
4 8 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (10.14%) Snowflake
6 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) GitHub
8 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.45%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.45%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) DHCP
1 5 (7.25%) DNS
1 5 (7.25%) Skype
1 5 (7.25%) Unified Communications
2 4 (5.80%) 5G
2 4 (5.80%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (4.35%) 2G
3 3 (4.35%) 4G
4 1 (1.45%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.45%) 5G NR
4 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) LTE
4 1 (1.45%) Microwave Backhaul
4 1 (1.45%) MPLS
4 1 (1.45%) VoLTE
4 1 (1.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) Power BI
2 9 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.14%) BigQuery
4 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.25%) Big Data
6 4 (5.80%) Star Schema
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.90%) Tableau
9 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) DBeaver
2 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
General
1 20 (28.99%) Finance
2 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Local Government
5 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.25%) Banking
7 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.90%) Publishing
9 1 (1.45%) Billing
9 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Senior
2 14 (20.29%) Data Engineer
3 10 (14.49%) Analyst
3 10 (14.49%) Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Applications Support
4 7 (10.14%) Support Officer
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Applications Support
6 5 (7.25%) Analytics Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Application Security Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Security Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Manager
6 5 (7.25%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) Node.js
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (4.35%) React
1 3 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) .NET
2 2 (2.90%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.90%) Kafka
2 2 (2.90%) OAuth
2 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.90%) Pandas
2 2 (2.90%) SOAP
2 2 (2.90%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.45%) JMS
3 1 (1.45%) JPA
3 1 (1.45%) RESTful
3 1 (1.45%) Spring
3 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.45%) XML
3 1 (1.45%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.25%) PKI
3 4 (5.80%) Replication
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.90%) IoT
5 2 (2.90%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Windows
1 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.99%) Analytics
2 19 (27.54%) Agile
2 19 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (23.19%) ETL
3 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.39%) DevOps
5 10 (14.49%) AI
5 10 (14.49%) Application Security
5 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
5 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
5 10 (14.49%) Data Modelling
5 10 (14.49%) Data Science
5 10 (14.49%) Validation
6 9 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (11.59%) Change Management
7 8 (11.59%) Data Security
7 8 (11.59%) ITIL
7 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.59%) Migration
8 7 (10.14%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) Java
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.90%) C#
5 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.90%) Go
5 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) Scala
6 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
1 14 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) Degree
3 5 (7.25%) CCNA
3 5 (7.25%) CCNP
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.25%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (7.25%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.25%) MCSE
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.64%) Data Quality
2 13 (18.84%) GDPR
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.45%) PERC
4 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (7.25%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) SCCM
2 5 (7.25%) WSUS
3 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (2.90%) Grafana
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Databricks
2 7 (10.14%) Google
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle
3 6 (8.70%) NEC
4 5 (7.25%) Cisco
4 5 (7.25%) SolarWinds
4 5 (7.25%) Splunk
4 5 (7.25%) Veeam
4 5 (7.25%) VMware
5 2 (2.90%) BMC
5 2 (2.90%) Remedy
6 1 (1.45%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.45%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.45%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.45%) Facebook
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow